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Re: Is this the scripture we teach to be separate?
The life of a Christian will separate us from the world naturally--it doesn't have to be a deliberate separation just for the sake of it. We shouldn't choose to do something opposite of an unbeliever simply to separate ourselves from them. Everything we do should be as unto the Lord, and we will naturally be set apart or different from unbelievers, even those who also dress modestly. (Because their character will be different from ours.)
Separation unto God is a better way to look at it, because too often people think of separation from the world as "doing the opposite of what worldly people do." It's not quite the same thing.
Separation also doesn't mean that we eliminate contact, another fallacy that has greatly injured the church and outreach.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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